Edener Benitez Fabella
14 July 2006

Have I got solutions? You bet your bottom I do. Question is - do you think, as smart as these officials are who are doing a wonderful job screwing the nation, ideas from a nobody like me will see the light of day let alone put into use? Another question for you is this, how do you criticize wrongdoings of people elected to a job without going to the jugular? I have few suggestions and you can go along with the dream if you are for real. If I am president, I will issue an EO barring officials, locals and national from junketing abroad. Instead, we will send outstanding citizens specially the youth to see cultures of other countries. I would like our youth to see why rivers, lakes and creeks of America and Europe are teeming with fish while the only thing we can catch in our rivers are diseases? I would like them to see the abundant wildlife in other countries. Why there are tigers and elephants in places like Sri Lanka, India, Pandas in China, Polar and grizzly bears in continental North America while we could not even resist shooting down our Philippine eagles hunting our deers to extinction. I would like our citizens to see why driving in other countries is characteristically civil not the usual gridlock and chaos which is a daily dose of life on Philippine streets. Why it is against the law in many countries to offer bribe to police officers. Why government business is so effective without need of greasing anyone to get things done unlike in our country of which bribery being benchmark of government service. Why it is so clean and green in Singapore where people just don’t litter everywhere. When these citizens return from their trips, I am hoping their experience will encourage them to do things differently from the scoundrels who have not respected our environment, treasury, dignity and human rights of every citizen.

Our next flight is for the benefit of our motorcycle cops. They need to know why they are just about the only ones educated in ‘kotongan’ traffic rules. They could learn a lot from the California Highway Patrol. S’long!